"We are dangerous, shocking each other / with our touch. The body’s charge like bug / zappers from the summer dusks of childhood... "
From "Future Grief" by ASU English alum @susanpoet.bsky.social.
Read the poem @ampoetryreview.bsky.social: ow.ly/7ZOJ50X0Atp #ASUHumanities
"I’m alive and I have an appetite / for longing. So let them all in: the birds, / the strays. Even the / things that buzz / in my ear. "
From "Flight Path" by ASU English alum @susanpoet.bsky.social. Read the whole poem @aaww-nyc.bsky.social The Margins: ow.ly/wgmy50XyqHe #ASUHumanities
Graphic that reads on top: Happy publication day! An image of the book Dear Diaspora by Susan Nguyen is held up in focus in front of a bookshelf of books which are out of focus.
Image of the book Dear Diaspora by Susan Nguyen on top stacks of other books in a bookshop.
Happy Publication day to @susanpoet.bsky.social Dear Diaspora ✨
Dear Diaspora is an unapologetic reckoning with history, memory, and grief. Parting the weeds on a small American town, this collection sheds light on the intersections of girlhood and diaspora
www.the87press.co.uk/shop/p/dear-diaspora
SAVE THE DATE — Dear Diaspora: book launch, trilingual reading & fundraiser for Palestine. Sunday September 28th from 7-9pm UK (brunch time in the US) | online & in person at The Common Press!
@susanpoet.bsky.social @poetrytranslation.bsky.social @thecommonpress.bsky.social @phuonganh.bsky.social
Couldn’t remember the word for draino earlier and called it plumbing juice🧃
Putting a duvet cover back on your duvet has gotta be one of the most demoralizing things ever
Mutual aid organizations like The Sameer Project, a rapid-response initiative led by Palestinians in the diaspora, need your help to support their work in Gaza.
The other day a waiter misheard a friend’s order and said “sorry I can’t hear bc I’m a man” and I’m still thinking abt it
The wonderfully talented Susan Nguyen launched Dear Diaspora at our last Mushaira in Cafe OTO. Find her signed copies Housmans Bookshop and Round Table Books 📚
Otherwise you can pre-order the UK edition of @susanpoet.bsky.social's Dear Diaspora: tinyurl.com/5a3u9r2x
#the87press #indiepress
When three of our lovely authors in London ✨ They signed some copies at @HousmansBooks and Round Table Books 📚
Pre-order @susanpoet.bsky.social's Dear Diaspora: tinyurl.com/5a3u9r2x
Check out @sabadilla15.bsky.social's Self-Mythology, and @sarahali.bsky.social's Theophanies: the87press.co.uk/shop
I’ve got 2 poems in the latest APR issue, including the title poem of book 2!
GoFundMe has set up a page for the Texan flood victims. Each campaign has been verified by the company's Trust & Safety experts, which means you know your money is going directly to families. Please consider donating if you can. Their stories are heartbreaking.
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We're thrilled to announce that we’ve signed Susan Nguyen @susanpoet.bsky.social and will bring her debut poetry collection, Dear Diaspora, to the UK and Ireland in September!
This powerful collection, previously published by University of Nebraska Press, 2021, is a multi-award winner.
COVER REVEAL! Dear Diaspora by Susan Nguyen (@susanpoet.bsky.social), coming September 2025 with the87press
This powerful collection, previously published by University of Nebraska Press, 2021, is a multi-award winner.
#letscreate #the87press #indiepress #SupportIndiePublisher
Info on the raffle here: bit.ly/GFOR2025
You do not need to attend our reading or even AWP to donate and enter!
Our annual AWP offsite, Growing From Our Roots, featuring debut Asian writers will be on 3/27!
Between now and then, donate to the Armory Arts Fire Relief Fund or The Sameer Project for a chance to win books by our featured readers!
Shadows on black street in front of big green trees.
Shadow of a tree on a tan house.
Some recent shadows
Photos of the contest judges over a dark blue and gold background, with white and gold text announcing the contest name, prize, and window.
HFR’s Fiction & Poetry Contest is now open for submissions!
Send us your work, win money!
Submit here: haydensferryreview.com/haydens-ferr...
Entry fee is $23/$15 with a print/digital subscription, but if that's a barrier, stay tuned for a short free subs window later this month!
Tired by Langston Hughes I am so tired of waiting, Aren’t you, For the world to become good And beautiful and kind? Let us take a knife And cut the world in two — And see what worms are eating At the rind.
Aren't you
Hi lovelies, @haydensferryreview.bsky.social is now on here! Pls go follow for all things HFR 🦋 🦋 🦋
Sending this around again tonight
Did a class visit recently for Dear Diaspora and a student said my book opened up dialogue bw them and their family abt diaspora and immigration and as a writer, this feels like a blessing ✨
Three big yellow leaves and one big green leaf on a wicker table, which is half in shadow.
Today a student said my class was a ~haven for in-depth emotional and analytical conversations~. I had a pizza party for my editors. I picked these big leaves. The semester is (finally) almost over.
Today is a good day, the first in a while, and I want to unbutton the sleeves of desire. Open all the windows and let April in. It’s musty as hell in here. Let the sun take me by the shoulders and kiss the grooves of my collarbones. I’m alive and I have an appetite for longing. So let them all in: the birds, the strays. Even the things that buzz in my ear. A fly dizzies past, languid, then promptly forgets the open window. He knocks again and again, louder and louder, against the warm glass, looking for escape. God, to make a nuisance of my want until it’s all anyone hears. To make my yearning known as I circle a room. I admire this lust for life, so I let him live. I fan him through the window with a dust rag like I’m waving goodbye to a lover. When I walk by the week-old box of oranges, I cause a commotion. A shadow of fruit flies lifts then disperses. A dead one floats in my glass. The smell of rot sharpens each day, rings of blue mold appearing one by one until whole oranges turn ashen. Let them. Desire is not without casualty. I’m amazed that every insect that finds its way in makes it to water– the silverfish in the sink, the gnat hovering over the dripping faucet. It’s a superpower. A heightened nose for that which they cannot live without. I’d be lying if I said I never drowned them. Sometimes, I want spectacle. I drop each silver orange down the drain and watch the spores erupt.
ICYMI I have a new poem on and toward 🌀 desire, spectacle, mess 🌀 up at the @aaww-nyc.bsky.social !!
Help us send 2,000 books to readers who are incarcerated this winter through our Books Not Bars program
My wonderful AAPI lit students organized a watch party for Everything Everywhere All At Once tonight and brought snacks and are now playing games to come down from this very good but very intense movie and this is giving me so much joy 🥹
"Today is a good day, the first in a while,/ and I want to unbutton the sleeves of desire."
Read this week's #PoetryTuesday piece, "Flight Path" by Susan Nguyen, in #TheMargins!
aaww.org/flight-path/
Cartoon dog walking away on two legs
Seeing the first step in an ~easy~ recipe is to chop onions
Nov 29-Dec 5 is #ReadPalestineWeek & Publishers 4 Palestine are releasing *free* ebooks for a Free Palestine
P4P already released AND STILL WE WRITE, which you can download below
"Print it and share it. Make it part of your actions on Nov 29-Dec 5" 🇵🇸🍉
publishersforpalestine.org/2024/11/19/l...
I am keeper of the post-MFA tumblr (crowdsourced) which has tons of info on post-MFA fellowships, BUT it also has info on residencies—with a whole section of shorter residencies for caregivers! Pass it on! #writers #writingcommunity post-mfa.tumblr.com/residencies
